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The Origin of Mucosal Immunity: Lessons from the Holobiont Hydra

Historically, mucosal immunity—i.e., the portion of the immune system that protects an organism’s various mucous membranes from invasion by potentially pathogenic microbes—has been studied in single-cell epithelia in the gastrointestinal and upper respiratory tracts of vertebrates. Phylogenetically,...

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Autores principales: Schröder, Katja, Bosch, Thomas C. G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5090036/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27803185
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01184-16